How much public sector work is actually open for bidding right now, broken down by country and sector. Figures are a dated snapshot, not a rolling estimate, so they can be quoted precisely.
Six numbers that describe the size of the opportunity as of 26 July 2026.
Only 23,031 of the 51,923 active tenders (44.4%) publish an estimated value at all, so no total can describe the whole market. Where a value is published, we convert non-EUR amounts at fixed reference rates.
The combined figure is also extremely top-heavy: the ten largest tenders alone account for EUR 315.0 billion (37.1% of the disclosed total) and the largest hundred for 75.1%, because framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems publish a multi-year ceiling rather than committed spend. The median is the more faithful description of a typical tender, which is why we lead with the tender count rather than the total.
Each of these is a complete statement with its own date and qualifiers, so it stands up on its own if quoted.
All 23 countries currently covered, ranked by the number of tenders open on 26 July 2026. Coverage depth varies: some national portals publish every municipal contract, others only those above their statutory publication threshold, so these counts reflect what each country makes public as much as how much it buys.
| Country | Active tenders | Share | Disclose a value | Median value | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
DEGermany
|
11,947 | 23.0% | 8.9% | EUR 485,470 | EUR 3,438,071,601 |
|
FRFrance
|
8,026 | 15.5% | 19.2% | EUR 904,000 | EUR 18,705,150,938 |
|
ESSpain
|
6,303 | 12.1% | 99.4% | EUR 121,061 | EUR 19,683,666,245 |
|
GRGreece
|
4,725 | 9.1% | 99.5% | EUR 12,693 | EUR 9,429,062,300 |
| 2,925 | 5.6% | 90.0% | EUR 2,246,400 | EUR 651,280,748,900 | |
|
BEBelgium
|
2,299 | 4.4% | 2.4% | EUR 679,607 | EUR 258,146,713 |
| 2,099 | 4.0% | 22.4% | EUR 1,600,000 | EUR 7,608,180,551 | |
|
FIFinland
|
1,739 | 3.3% | 32.8% | EUR 1,800,000 | EUR 28,742,595,676 |
| 1,677 | 3.2% | 0.0% | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | |
|
SESweden
|
1,550 | 3.0% | 85.5% | EUR 870,000 | EUR 6,892,149,591 |
|
NONorway
|
1,203 | 2.3% | 50.5% | EUR 1,044,000 | EUR 5,321,460,343 |
|
PTPortugal
|
1,162 | 2.2% | 98.7% | EUR 248,000 | EUR 2,119,127,314 |
| 1,131 | 2.2% | 48.5% | EUR 140,666 | EUR 8,846,742,520 | |
|
CZCzechia
|
874 | 1.7% | 39.6% | EUR 143,860 | EUR 410,896,309 |
|
PLPoland
|
719 | 1.4% | 3.1% | EUR 84,579 | EUR 5,730,479 |
|
IEIreland
|
681 | 1.3% | 56.7% | EUR 300,000 | EUR 7,097,117,202 |
|
LVLatvia
|
647 | 1.2% | 51.8% | EUR 70,000 | EUR 335,658,688 |
|
SISlovenia
|
594 | 1.1% | 12.3% | EUR 207,070 | EUR 56,510,880 |
|
DKDenmark
|
583 | 1.1% | 71.7% | EUR 4,141,166 | EUR 78,957,887,267 |
|
EEEstonia
|
528 | 1.0% | 98.3% | EUR 180,000 | EUR 506,080,453 |
|
SKSlovakia
|
305 | 0.6% | 0.0% | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| 202 | 0.4% | 0.0% | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | |
|
RORomania
|
4 | 0.0% | 100.0% | EUR 87,129 | EUR 300,781 |
Disclosed value sums only those tenders publishing an estimated value, converted to EUR at fixed reference rates. Countries showing "Not disclosed" publish tender notices without estimated values on their national portal. Totals including framework and DPS ceilings can exceed a country's realistic annual procurement spend and should not be read as committed budget — compare medians instead.
The twelve largest sectors by number of open tenders, classified by CPV division. Shares are calculated against the 50,732 active tenders that carry a CPV code (97.7% of the total).
| Sector | CPV division | Active tenders | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction work | 45 | 14,579 | 28.7% |
| Engineering & architecture | 71 | 4,267 | 8.4% |
| Business services | 79 | 3,011 | 5.9% |
| Environmental services | 90 | 2,667 | 5.3% |
| Medical equipment | 33 | 2,257 | 4.4% |
| Repair & maintenance | 50 | 2,174 | 4.3% |
| Transport equipment | 34 | 2,163 | 4.3% |
| IT services | 72 | 1,623 | 3.2% |
| Office & computing equipment | 30 | 1,250 | 2.5% |
| Health services | 85 | 1,248 | 2.5% |
| Furniture & appliances | 39 | 1,209 | 2.4% |
| Financial services | 66 | 1,184 | 2.3% |
Time remaining until the submission deadline, for every tender open on 26 July 2026. This is the single most underrated constraint in public procurement: most opportunities are already part-way through their window by the time a supplier finds them.
| Time remaining | Active tenders | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Closing within 7 days | 14,119 | 27.2% |
| Closing in 7-30 days | 22,720 | 43.8% |
| Closing in 30-90 days | 11,517 | 22.2% |
| Closing in more than 90 days | 3,567 | 6.9% |
76,683 tender notices were published across the 23 covered countries in the 30 days ending 26 July 2026 — roughly 2,556 a day. 38,938 of them (50.8%) were still open for bidding at the end of that window; the rest had already closed, which is the clearest available measure of how quickly opportunities expire.
| Country | Notices published | Share of new notices |
|---|---|---|
| Greece | 15,872 | 20.7% |
| Germany | 13,855 | 18.1% |
| United Kingdom | 10,299 | 13.4% |
| Spain | 8,939 | 11.7% |
| France | 7,208 | 9.4% |
This count is keyed on the publication date the buyer states on the notice. Estonia is absent from it because none of its currently open notices carry one, and the most recent publication date held on 26 July 2026 was 24 July 2026, so the final days of the window are still filling in. Read the figure as a floor, not a ceiling.
What the numbers above actually mean for a supplier deciding where to spend bidding effort. Every figure cited here comes from the same 26 July 2026 snapshot.
Three countries hold more than half of everything open. Germany (11,947 active tenders), France (8,026) and Spain (6,303) together account for 26,276 notices, 50.6% of the 51,923 tenders open on 26 July 2026.
Volume and value point in different directions, though. The United Kingdom publishes only 2,925 active notices — 5.6% of the total — yet its disclosed value of EUR 651.3 billion is 76.6% of every euro disclosed anywhere. That is an artefact of how the UK publishes: a small number of enormous framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems carry multi-year ceilings. Across the whole dataset the ten largest tenders alone are 37.1% of the disclosed total, and the largest hundred are 75.1%.
The practical read: if you want many mid-sized chances to bid, the German, French and Spanish markets are where the notices are. If you are equipped to win a place on a large framework, the UK and Denmark are where the ceilings are. Concentration also stops at the country level — those 51,923 tenders come from 20,478 separate contracting authorities, of which 11,612 (56.7%) have exactly one tender open. There is no short list of accounts to cultivate; the buyer side is genuinely fragmented.
Construction is the single largest category by a wide margin: 14,579 active tenders sit in CPV division 45, 28.7% of the 50,732 open tenders that carry a CPV code.
Add engineering and architecture services (division 71, 4,267 tenders) and the built environment accounts for 18,846 opportunities, 37.1% of everything classified. Nothing else comes close. Business services (3,011), environmental services (2,667), medical equipment (2,257), repair and maintenance (2,174) and transport equipment (2,163) each hold between 4% and 6%.
Technology is smaller than its share of attention suggests. IT services (1,623) and office and computing equipment (1,250) together are 2,873 tenders, 5.7% of the classified market — real, but a fifth of the built environment. The distribution has a short head and a thin tail: the twelve divisions listed above cover 74.2% of all classified tenders, with the remainder spread across dozens of small divisions. Unlike the value figures, this breakdown is close to complete — 97.7% of active tenders carry a CPV code, because classification is mandatory where publishing a price is not.
Most public tenders do not say what they are worth. Only 23,031 of the 51,923 active tenders (44.4%) publish an estimated contract value.
The gap is not spread evenly — it is almost entirely a country-level policy difference. Greece discloses on 99.5% of its notices, Spain on 99.4%, Portugal on 98.7%. At the other end, Germany — the largest market by volume — publishes a value on just 1,059 of 11,947 notices (8.9%), and Belgium on 2.4%. Three countries, Switzerland, Slovakia and Luxembourg, disclose none at all: 2,184 open tenders with no published value between them.
This makes cross-country value comparison close to meaningless, and it is the reason this page reports disclosure rates beside every value. Germany's EUR 3.4 billion of disclosed value describes 8.9% of German notices, not the German market. For suppliers the consequence is concrete: in low-disclosure markets you cannot qualify an opportunity on published budget, so the only reliable signals are the scope of the specification and what the same buyer has awarded before. That asymmetry favours incumbents, who already know the number.
The typical open tender is well within reach of a small company. The median is EUR 237,903, and 16,734 of the 23,031 tenders that disclose a value (72.7%) are under EUR 1 million; 86.8% are under EUR 5 million.
The real barrier is time, not size. 14,119 tenders (27.2%) close within seven days and 36,839 (70.9%) within thirty; only 3,567 (6.9%) leave more than ninety days. A supplier who discovers a tender when it is already published has, more often than not, less than a month to assemble a compliant bid — which is why continuous monitoring beats periodic searching.
Where you look changes what "small" means. The median open tender in Greece is EUR 12,693 and in Spain EUR 121,061, against EUR 4,141,166 in Denmark and EUR 2,246,400 in the United Kingdom — a spread of more than two orders of magnitude. Suppliers entering public procurement for the first time will find far more contracts sized for them in southern markets, while the Nordic and UK medians reflect markets that bundle work into larger lots. The fragmented buyer base helps here too: with 20,478 authorities buying and 56.7% of them running a single open tender, there is no incumbent holding the whole market.
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Tendly (2026). Public Procurement in Numbers 2026: Tendly Procurement Data Snapshot, 26 July 2026. https://tendly.eu/data
When quoting a single figure, keep its as-of date and its denominator with it — most of the numbers here describe a subset (tenders that disclose a value, tenders that carry a CPV code) rather than the whole market.
Source: Tendly platform data, aggregated from national procurement portals and TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), as of 26 July 2026.
Active tender: a published notice whose stated submission deadline had not passed at 26 July 2026. Tenders are counted once per published notice; where a buyer re-publishes or renews a framework agreement, each notice counts separately.
Contract value: the estimated value published by the buyer, converted to EUR at fixed reference rates. Values are self-reported and inconsistently published — only 44.4% of active tenders include one. Framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems publish a ceiling for the full term, which inflates totals relative to actual spend.
Median value: the midpoint of disclosed values, computed per country over that country's disclosing tenders only. Where a country discloses on few notices, its median describes those notices rather than its market — read it alongside the disclosure rate in the same row.
Sector: the first two digits of the tender's primary CPV code, the classification used across public procurement.
Newly published: notices whose stated publication date falls in the 30 days ending 26 July 2026, whether or not they are still open. Portals that publish no publication date are excluded from that count only; they are still counted everywhere else on this page.
Coverage: counts reflect what each national portal publishes, which varies by country and by procurement threshold. A lower count does not necessarily mean a smaller procurement market — it may mean less is published centrally, or that coverage of that market is more recent.
Updates: this page is a dated snapshot rather than a live figure, so the numbers stay citable. Each refresh recomputes every figure against a single new as-of date.
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